Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 30

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  Crawford Long
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  Wang Jingwei
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  Merv Griffin, creator of the game show Jeopardy!
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  Alex Trebek, longtime host of Jeopardy!
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  Marcos Pontes
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  William H. Seward
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  Usmar Ismail
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  Moments after the attempted assassination of Reagan
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  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

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Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago	stub
1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.	Vespers: refimprove section; War: needs more footnotes
1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.	Large sections uncited
1899 – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights.	unreferenced section
1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed by Japan as head of a puppet state in China.	Wang: refimprove section; Regime: refimprove section
1954 – The Yonge–University–Spadina line, the first subway in Canada and the busiest in Toronto, opened.	refimprove section
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed.	multiple issues	refimprove section
1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.	Miscellaneous info banner
2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian in space.	refimprove section
James Cagney |d|1986	If someone wants to confirm the filmography is cited in the article, then we're good to go

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• 1861 – British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.
• 1867 – U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for Template:Nowrap.
• 1918 – Four days of inter-ethnic clashes broke out in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.
• 1921 – The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force.
• 1950 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many South Vietnamese units as possible.
• 1981 – John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton (immediate aftermath pictured).
• 2002 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, widow of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Royal Lodge aged 101.

• Born/died: | Ralph Sadler |d|1587| Kazimierz Łyszczyński |d|1689| Juan Manuel de Rosas |b|1793 | Anna Sewell |b|1820| Beau Brummell |d|1840| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun |d|1842| Stefan Banach |b|1892| John Cecil Russell |d|1909| Philip Showalter Hench |d|1965| Celine Dion |b|1968 | DJ AM |b|1973| Fred Korematsu |d|2005|

March 30: Eid al-Fitr (Islam, 2025); Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2025); Land Day in Palestinian communities (1976) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1822 – The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.
• 1912 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes (depicted), making Morocco a French protectorate.
• 1977 – Annie Hall had its first screening at the LA Film Festival; it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by members of the Writers Guild of America.
• 2009 – The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.